pkg_online - client/server package searcher for pkgsrc. Every separate field (PKGPATH, PKGNAME, COMMENT etc.) may be queried separately and multiple fields may be queried too. A lot of search strategies are available. Set of fields and search strategies may very depending on your server configuration. Search in multiple "repositories" is supported too, e.g. search in binary repository or in pkgsrc source tree. Communication protocol is a well known dictionary protocol described in RFC-2229. Server may run dictd or any other dictionary protocol server. For dictd see http://www.dict.org and http://sourceforge.net/projects/dict pkg_online has minimal amount of things specific to pkgsrc and can easily be adapted to any other packageing systems. Of course it is based on pkg_summary-utils ;-) This package provides client tools of PKG_ONLINE.
Binary packages can be installed with the high-level tool pkgin (which can be installed with pkg_add) or pkg_add(1) (installed by default). The NetBSD packages collection is also designed to permit easy installation from source.
The pkg_admin audit command locates any installed package which has been mentioned in security advisories as having vulnerabilities.
Please note the vulnerabilities database might not be fully accurate, and not every bug is exploitable with every configuration.
Problem reports, updates or suggestions for this package should be reported with send-pr.